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A GIPSY COTTAGE.
The Old Fortune-Teller and her Brother .-- The Patteran, or Gipsies' Road- Mark .-- The Christian Cross, named by Continental Gipsies Trushul, after the Trident of Siva .-- Curious English-Gipsy term for the Cross .-- Ashwood Fires on Christmas Day .-- Our Saviour regarded with affection by the Rommany because he was like themselves and poor .-- Strange ideas of the Bible .-- The Oak .-- Lizards renew their lives .-- Snails .-- Slugs .-- Tobacco Pipes as old as the world.
"Duveleste; Avo.

Mandy's kaired my patteran adusta chairuses where a drum jals atut the waver," which means in English--"God bless you, yes.
Many a time I have marked my sign where the roads cross." I was seated in the cottage of an old Gipsy mother, one of the most noted fortune-tellers in England, when I heard this from her brother, himself an ancient wanderer, who loves far better to hear the lark sing than the mouse cheep when he wakes of a morning.
It was a very small but clean cottage, of the kind quite peculiar to the English labourer, and therefore attractive to every one who has felt the true spirit of the most original poetry and art which this country has produced.

For look high or low, dear reader, you will find that nothing has ever been better done in England than the pictures of rural life, and over nothing have its gifted minds cast a deeper charm.
There were the little rough porcelain figures of which the English peasantry are so fond, and which, cheap as they are, indicate that the taste of your friends Lady -- - for Worcester "porcelain," or the Duchess of -- - for Majolica, has its roots among far humbler folk.

In fact there were perhaps twenty things which no English reader would have supposed were peculiar, yet which were something more than peculiar to me.